Kurino Shinichirō

Kurino as ambassador
to France

Kurino Shinichirō
in Boston

Kurino Shinichirō ( Japanese 栗 野 慎 一郎 ; born November 29, 1851 in Fukuoka ( Chikuzen Province ); died November 15, 1937 ) was a Japanese diplomat of the Meiji and Taishō periods .

Live and act

Kurino Shinichirō was the son of a samurai of the Kuroda clan . He attended the Han school "Shūkenkan" (修 猷 館) and trained at the school of Takita Shijō (瀧 田 紫 城; 1822-1897), where he learned Chinese, Japanese national teaching and Dutch science ( Rangaku ). From 1875 to 1881 he studied at Harvard University , together with Dan Takuma and Kaneko Kentarō .

After returning from the USA, he joined the State Department and became an envoy to the USA, Italy, France and Russia. In Russia he began his work at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War and advocated Russian-Japanese cooperation and Japan's cooperation with Great Britain.

Kurino became the first Japanese ambassador to France in 1906 and successfully concluded the cooperation agreement with France in 1907 (日 仏 協約, Nichi-Futsu kyōyaku).

In 1912 Kurino was replaced by Ishii Kikujirō and returned to Japan. In 1913 he retired and in 1932 he became a member of the State Council .

Web links

Commons : Kurino Shinichirō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kurino Shinichirō in the Kotobank, Japanese.

Remarks

1. ↑ On the left the future businessman Dan Takuma, in the middle the politician Kaneko Kentarō, on the right Kurino Shinichirō.
2. ↑ Today Fukuoka Prefecture , together with the western half of Buzen Province .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kurino is the family name, Shinichirō the first name.